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GRANNY’S FUNERAL (L’ENTERREMENT DE MÉMÉ) FRIDAY, MARCH 1 - 7:30PM Although he made no effort to see his grand-mother in her waning years, a pharmacist must now deal with her funeral arrangements. This is awkward enough, but nothing like his emotional swings between a wife he can’t quite part from and a lover he can’t quite commit to, in a comedy stamped with the Podalydès brand of caustic, Gallic wit. With Valérie Lemercier, Isabelle Candelier, Catherine Hiegel and Benoît Hamon. BRUNO PODALYDÈS | 2012 | 100 MINUTES |
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PERSECUTION Romain Duris and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in this Rendez-Vous with French Cinema encore screening. The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel’s life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to insinuate himself in his life. The man’s persistence takes its toll on Daniel and Sonia, leaving Daniel alone with nagging questions of “Why?” PATRICE CHÉREAU | 2009 | 100 MINUTES |
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THERESE DESQUEYROUX The late French master Claude Miller’s final film elegantly adapts François Mauriac’s modern classic of a woman’s growing resistance to her suffocating marriage, and showcases a remarkable Audrey Tautou as the disturbed titular heroine. With Gilles Lelouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi. CLAUDE MILLER | 2012 | 110 MINUTES |
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JOURNAL DE FRANCE Raymond Depardon’s brilliant self-portrait (co-directed by his longtime collaborator and sound engineer Claudine Nougaret) takes a surprising point of view on the great documentarian’s life—not only as a filmmaker, but as a photographer of expressive precision, capturing the entirety of French society over the decades. The patience of this imagemaker’s practice is testament to an alternative to the hyper-fast, instant delivery of digital images that now dominates the culture. RAYMOND DEPARDON, CLAUDINE NOUGARET | 2012 | 100 MINUTES |
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AUGUSTINE Based on a true case, writer-director Winocour has adapted the story of a progressive 19th century doctor/therapist and his unusual patient into a study of personal wills, hidden desires and reversals of fate. A maid who suffers from seizures is sent to a mental hospital, where it seems she’ll be condemned for life until Professor Charcot finds in her the possibilities of testing his advanced notions of the sources of so-called “hysteria.” Soko as Augustine and Vincent Lindon as Charcot deliver astonishing performances. ALICE WINOCOUR | 2012 | 102 MINUTES |
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RICH IS THE WOLF (LA RICHESSE DU LOUP) Perplexed at the sudden disappearance of her husband, a wife watches hours of videotape that he’s recorded over the previous seven years to piece together some clues. Odoul’s most daring feature, whose color and black-and-white images are culled from his own videotaping, confirms his place as one of France’s genuinely exploratory filmmakers. DAMIEN ODOUL | 2012 | 82 MINUTES |
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ME, YOU & US (UN ENFANT DE TOI) The tentative nature of relationships is explored in dazzling, three-dimensional fashion in this cleverly written and directed roundelay between current and former lovers. Aya, the mother of a bright young daughter, struggles to come to terms with the end of her marriage, while hoping to have a child with her new lover. Stars Lou Doillon, Samuel Benchetrit, Malik Zidi, Olga Milshtein. JACQUES DOILLON | 2012 | 136 MINUTES |
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THE SUICIDE SHOP (LE MAGASIN DES SUICIDES) Master filmmaker Patrice Leconte makes a startling and unforgettable departure from his previous work with this whimsical animated 3-D musical about a family business offering certain special “end-of-life” services. Rather than succumbing to a purely mordant perspective, the movie switches course and mood, driven by the family’s perpetually happy child whom they can’t control. Based on the novel by Jean Teule and with the voices of Bernard Alane, Isabelle Space, Kacey Mottet Klein, Isabelle Giami, Laurent Gendron. PATRICE LECONTE | 2012 | 105 MINUTES |
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YOU WILL BE MY SON (TU SERAS MON FILS) Instead of grooming his son to inherit his lucrative wine-growing business, an imperious vintner (Niels Arestrup) looks to a talented California-based grower, rendering a harvest of jealousy and worse. Legrand’s narrative takes on Shakespearean qualities, driven by a titanic performance by Arestrup, while the film’s observations on the wine-growing business are thoroughly engrossing. GILLES LEGRAND | 2013 | 102 MINUTES |
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The 18th edition of the celebrated annual showcase of the best in contemporary French film,
RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA, is returning to Kansas City. Download a Printable Schedule.
Nine films specially chosen from the 2013 program presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Unifrance Films will be shown March 1st - March 10th at the Tivoli. This year's, week-long program includes AUDREY TAUTOU in one of three live, post-screening Q&A's simulcast from Lincoln Center in New York City.
